{"title":"Books by Alison Phipps","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"9780745648880","title":"The Politics of the Body","description":"Winner of the 2015 FWSA Book Prize  The body is a site of impassioned, fraught and complex debate in the West today. In one political moment, left-wingers, academics and feminists have defended powerful men accused of sex crimes, positioned topless pictures in the tabloids as empowering, and opposed them for sexualizing breasts and undermining their ?natural? function. At the same time they have been criticized by extreme-right groups for ignoring honour killings and other ?culture-based? forms of violence against women. How can we make sense of this varied terrain?  In this important and challenging new book, Alison Phipps constructs a political sociology of women?s bodies around key debates: sexual violence, gender and Islam, sex work and motherhood. Her analysis uncovers dubious rhetorics and paradoxical allegiances, and contextualizes these within the powerful coalition of neoliberal and neoconservative frameworks. She explores how ?feminism? can be caricatured and vilified at both ends of the political spectrum, arguing that Western feminisms are now faced with complex problems of positioning in a world where gender often comes second to other political priorities.     This book provides a welcome investigation into Western politics around women?s bodies, and will be particularly useful to scholars and upper-level students of sociology, political science, gender studies and cultural studies, as well as to anyone interested in how bodies become politicized.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56297531015541,"sku":"9780745648880","price":16.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780745648880_d142c8ee-774f-4a64-9bb9-813fe62806db.jpg?v=1786014610"},{"product_id":"9781526155801","title":"Me, Not You","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe Me Too movement, started by Black feminist Tarana Burke in 2006, went viral as a hashtag eleven years later after a tweet by white actor Alyssa Milano. Mainstream movements like #MeToo have often built on and co-opted the work of women of colour, while refusing to learn from them or centre their concerns. Far too often, the message is not 'Me, Too' but 'Me, Not You'. Alison Phipps argues that this is not just a lack of solidarity. Privileged white women also sacrifice more marginalised people to achieve their aims, or even define them as enemies when they get in the way.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eMe, not you\u003c\/i\u003e argues that the mainstream movement against sexual violence expresses a political whiteness that both reflects its demographics and limits its revolutionary potential. Privileged white women use their traumatic experiences to create media outrage, while relying on state power and bureaucracy to purge 'bad men' from elite institutions with little concern for where they might appear next. In their attacks on sex workers and trans people, the more reactionary branches of this feminist movement play into the hands of the resurgent far-right.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56301834371445,"sku":"9781526155801","price":8.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781526155801_492dc089-49ad-41fe-9031-ddc7b478d55f.jpg?v=1786022007"},{"product_id":"9781788924047","title":"Decolonising Multilingualism","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhat if my own multilingualism is simply that of one who is fluent in way too many colonial languages?\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eIf we are going to do this, if we are going to decolonise multilingualism, let's do it as an attempt at a way of doing it. \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eIf we are going to do this, let's cite with an eye to decolonising. \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eIf we are going to do this then let's improvise and devise. This is how we might learn the arts of decolonising.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eIf we are going to do this then we need different companions.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eIf we are going to do this we will need artists and poetic activists.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eIf we are going to do this, let's do it in a way which is as local as it is global; which affirms the granulations of the way peoples name their worlds.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eFinally, if we are going to do this, let's do it multilingually.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56306842108277,"sku":"9781788924047","price":9.95,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781788924047_fdb535d3-375f-436a-97da-0e633d064b8f.jpg?v=1786026670"},{"product_id":"9781849526005","title":"The Warriors Who Do Not Fight","description":"In September 2015 the world woke up to the fact that people seeking refuge from war and persecution were drowning by their thousands in the Mediterranean. From sub-Saharan Africa and conflicts across the Middle East bodies moved, died or survived. Alison Phipps and Tawona Sitholé were working together in Ghana at the time, which is where this conversation in poetry began. In an echoing call and response they offer words for these times of war; ways of wondering what it means to resist; to suffer with; to bear witness; to seek companionship; to be part of the agony of a family made in love, and parting, separated by land, sea and paperwork.   Alison Phipps is UNESCO Chair in Refugee Integration through Languages and the Arts; Professor of Languages and Intercultural Studies at the University of Glasgow; and Co-Convener of Glasgow Refugee, Asylum and Migration Network. Tawona Sitholé is a Zimbabwean writer and musician. He is Poet in Residence with the UNESCO Chair programme of Refugee Integration through Languages and the Arts at the University of Glasgow and is co-founder of Seeds of Thought, which promotes creative writing and performance.   This is a confluence of voices inspired by seemingly different, yet very similar, experiences, which forms a wholesome body that flows smoothly, massaging all your five senses.   – Chirikure Chirikure, poet, Harare, ZimbabweA special offering from two gifted lovers of the Word. The Word as a healer’s bittersweet medicine for troubled hearts and minds. The Word as nourishing sounds and voices that take us back to ancestral time. – Kofi Anyidoho, poet and Professor of Literature, University of GhanaBeautiful, heart-warming, poignant. I totally recommend this book.   – Amal Azzudin, Glasgow Girl and human rights activistLuminous, beautiful and sore. Poetry that is lyrical and tender, wounded and elegiac, probing and incantatory. 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These poems speak to displacement and belonging, to wounds that demand tending, and to the courage required to remake community. A vital, genre-defying collection for a world in search of liberation and healing.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56912195649909,"sku":"9781804323939","price":10.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781804323939_21b40bb1-3525-4a21-920e-cda08ec4b124.jpg?v=1786026871"}],"url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/collections\/author-alison-phipps.oembed","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}